| United Kingdom Ufo Network - #83 - 25th October 1997 |
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I wondered who would spot that first | Thank you Dan Sherman |
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[UK 1] Name a Star | [UK 2] Couple's UFO shock [UK 3] Short Wave Magazine - July 1997 [UK 4] Official They've Been Here! [UK 5] UFO approaches British warship off Lancashire shore |
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[W 1] Biggest baby in space | [W 2] Zombies [W 3] Ozone [W 4] Galileo finds life, by Jupiter [W 5] Hollywood admits to Bigfoot hoax [W 6] Mexico City UFO Video [W 7] Sparkling Celestial Affair Stirs Southern Australia. [W 8] New Russian Stealth Fighter [W 9] Global Surveyor will photograph 'Face On Mars' say NASA [W 10] Global Surveyor's Orbit Raised While Solar Panel is Analysed [W 11] Still no radio contact with Pathfinder [W 12] A breath of fresh airline [W 13] American navy set to deploy robot planes |
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Amusing UFO stories | A Fearful Symmetry - Part 5 |
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Thank you for bringing to my attention the fact that I dated the
last issue totally and irrefutably wrong ;-) As Captain Mainwaring of
the classic comedy 'Dads Army' would say: "I wondered who would spot
that first." | --- Thank you We would like to thank all those of you who have sent us in reports from newspapers, magazines, video's etc etc. We know that this takes precious time and effort. We just want you to know how grateful we are. Please, please keep them coming. --- Dan Sherman Readers will remember Dan Sherman as written about in issue {80}. Dan is shortly to be guesting on our UFO irc channel. The date of the meeting will be posted when known. Dan's story is really fascinating and we would urge you to read it in issue {80}. Dan has a web site with various information including how to go about purchasing his new book: http://www.earthworld.com/ppd/ An account of Dan's story has just appeared in the latest issue of Alien Encounters magazine - issue 18 - November 1997. The Real Audio sound track of Dan's interview on 'Sightings On The Radio' can be downloaded from the following addresses: http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt1.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt2.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt3.ra http://web.ukonline.co.uk/colin.light/uk-ufo-nw/sounds/dan_pt4.ra dan_pt1.ra - 2.155kb dan_pt2.ra - 1.948kb dan_pt3.ra - 1.856kb dan_pt4.ra - 1.165kb |
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[UK 1]****** | Source: Numerous national newspapers Date: October 1997 uk.ufo.nw says: The below advertisment has appeared in numerous national newspapers and magazines. We have no other information other than what you see below. However we would be interested to hear from anyone who has. Name a Star Millions of stars remain unamed. Many rich and famous have named stars. Now you can name a star for only 39 pounds and 95 pence! * Have your star name in the constellation of your choice. * Your star name will be permanently recorded in our register. Only 39 pounds and 95 pence (inc P & P) Gift Set Includes: * Certificate of registration (completed by hand) * Astronomical chart (showing star's location) * Philip's colour map of the night sky * Information & constellation guide * Registration and entry into 1998 publication Christmas * Valentines Day * Birthday * Wedding * Anniversary * New born * Naming a star is symbolic rather than scientific * For full details or colour brochure, call..Tel: 0181-208 3333 Universal Star Listing, Millenium Business Centre, 3 Humber Road, London NW2 6DW [UK 2]****** Source: NF Focus - (Free paper in Tunbridge & Tunbridge Wells, Kent, area) Date: 9th & 10th September 1997 From: Address withheld by request. Couple's UFO shock A Tunbridge Wells couple are recovering from a brush from the other side after a late night trip home turned into a close encounter with a mysterious flying object. Sally Rouse and Craig Rock were travelling down the A21 at 1.30am on their way home from Biggin Hill (to Tunbridge) when they caught sight of a brightly lit disc-shaped craft hovering nearby. Recounting the chilling tale, Miss Rouse, 22, of Mountfield Rd, said "As we were driving along I looked beside me and thought "what's that?". I thought it was a helicopter with a spotlight underneath. Craig got really excited and said "It's a UFO"." "It was round with flashing lights going one after the other lighting up the clouds around it. I was scared we were going to crash because Craig was not concentrating on the road. It was hovering and then disappeared." They turned off the road (A21) at Tunbridge but had not seen the last of the strange object which appeared again as they were driving up Quarry Hill". (in Tunbridge) "This time it was much closer and we felt like it was following us. It was very creepy. That's when I was really scared and started shaking. Craig wanted to stop the car and take a look but I just wanted to go home," she added. Despite a few sceptical comments from people she has spoken to about the incident Miss Rouse remains adamant that her close encounter was all too real. "We have all seen Men in Black recently so maybe our imaginations are going wild, but I know what I saw and it couldn't have been a helicopter or a plane," she concluded." *** Items in ( ) added by me for clarity. Date of encounter not given. As an addition/confirmation of this my son, 32, also saw an object that meets the description given on 29th Aug 22.15ish GMT from the garden of his girlfriend's home in East Peckam, nr Tunbridge. It was in the WNW, travelling south and visible for some 30 seconds, total, between the trees, at an estimated distance of some 8 miles. Neither of us are strangers to various aircraft in the area as I'm ex RAF and both of us Airband listeners/spotters and Sat-watchers. My son flies model helicopters. Airlanes G1/UG1, A20/UA20, R8 & UR37 are all within a few miles and a Gatwick App/Dep route comes over the house, together with local Light & Heli traffic flying VFR from Biggin, Rochester and Lashenden (Headcorn),and a regular Mil Heli route. A daily total of some 250-300 movements. Regards Annon [UK 3]****** From: ardent@cix.compulink.co.uk (Roy Dent) Date: Sunday 29th June 97 Short Wave Magazine - July 1997 The following item, which may be of interest, appears in the 'Scanning' column of 'Short Wave Magazine' July 1997 issue. STRANGE ENCOUNTERS An anonymous letter about 'strange encounters' informs me of an incident. Birmingham ATC were informed by a number of aircraft that another, unidentified, aircraft was flying in their vicinity. Birmingham ATC had no knowledge of this....the local police helicopter, on finals, reported close visual contact with an unidentified aircraft, which was also unknown to ATC at that point. My correspondent asks if this was an F-117 or other 'stealth type' aircraft....and reports that there are similarities between Birmingham at night from the air, and Bagdhad! As this was Farnborough week, could a 'training sortie' to show off such 'secret' capabilities have been put in to display the potential of the aircraft's invisibility to radar..? Now a letter from Mr A Pritchard of Chandlers Ford. A keen astronomist, which is an adjunct to his scanning hobby, he noted a satellite in high orbit travelling North, tracking towards Cassiopeia. He also noticed a second satellite coming in from the East, at right angles to the first. he informs me that the first satellite was at 8 degrees from the zenith when it was intercepted, indicated by both merging. He said that he then waited for the satellites to part, but they did not. Both continued in company North/South track for eight or nine seconds before the first broke clear and continued on its original East/West course. His question is: objects moving at that speed cannot abruptly make a right angle turn - can they? He asks if any readers can assist him in determining what happened - without going into theories around non-Newtonian motion and aircraft, meteors, etc. If you think that you can assist him, then please write to him at: A Pritchard, 18 Swanton Gdns, Millers Dale, Chandlers Ford, Nr Eastleigh, Hants. [UK 4]****** Source: The People newspaper Date: 5th October 1997 From: Calb1701@aol.com OFFICIAL THEY'VE BEEN HERE! Aliens have been visiting Britain for more than 50 years - and that's official. Secret Government documents reveal that some spacecraft have even crashed-landed here. But the details have been kept hidden from all of us in a giant cover-up similar to that in TV's The X-Files. That is until now. A sensational new book A Covert Agenda reveals that the alien visits are fact and non fiction. The author, full-time UFO researcher Nicholas Redfern, maintains the Ministry of Defence and the RAF have known for half a century about spacecraft which have crash-landed throughout Britain. At least SEVEN UFOs have crashed in Britain since the end of the Second World War. Hundreds more UFOs have been sighted since 1940s. Redfern, 33, from Walsall, West Midlands, also reveals details of a secret MoD base where reports of crashed UFOs are compiled. He has spent years investigating official memos and uncovered top-secret documents which prove that the Government does not want us to know how much it knows about aliens. And in the book he describes how dozens of spacecraft have flown over military bases, by-passing flight security systems. At the height of the Cold War, the Government was so concerned about UFOs that it contacted the Soviet Union to establish a joint task force to examine the security implications of alien craft. But it is the evidence that UFOs have ALREADY landed in Britain which is the most scandalous cover-up in British UFO history. Now turn the page for the full amazing story... REVEALED: SECRET UFO LANDING CASE HISTORY No 1: The British Roswell SIGHTINGS of strange flying objects - later known as Foo Fighter - were reported throughout the latter part of the Second World War by both Allied and Nazi servicemen. The reports certainly went through official channels. American journalist Dorothy Kilgallen was told by "a British official of Cabinet rank" about a Foo Fighter which had crashed in Britain - a case similar to the famous Roswell incident in New Mexico 50 years ago when alien corpses were recovered. Kilgallen was told: "British scientists and airmen examined the wreck of one mysterious flying ship and are convinced these strange aerial objects are not optical illusions or Soviet inventions but are flying saucers which originate on another planet." Retired diplomat and intelligence officer said he believed Kilgallen's source was Lord Louis Mountbatten. Kilgallen's story was backed up by Dr Olavo Fontes, a Brazilian UFO researcher of the 1950s. In 1958, Fontes - already known as Brazil's government was visited by two men who said they were from Navel Intelligence. Fontes claimed that, after initially trying to persuade him to give up his work, the officers revealed that six UFOs had crashed throughout the world during the Second World War. Three were in North American, one in the Sahara Desert, one in Scandinavia - and one in Britain. Fonte wrote in a letter to the Aerial Phenomena Research Organisation: "I was told all of these discs were small craft - 32, 77 or 99ft in diameter. In all of them were found crew members' bodies. "They were little men", and raged in height from 32 to 46in. They were dead in all cases, killed in the crashes. "The examination of the bodies showed they were definitely humanoid, but obviously not from this planet." CASE HISTORY No 2: Penkridge, Staffs, 1964 SPECIAL snatch teams appear to be on stand-by, ready to go into action to retrieve wreckage from UFO crashes. Just before he died in 1994, retired US Air Force intelligence officer Leonard Stringfield told Redfern: "Some time in 1964, a specially rigged navel flagship received a coded radio message. "Artefacts had been recovered with three dead personnel." According to his informant, the decoded report stated that a UFO had crashed in two parts: the main section was in Penkridge, Staffordshire, the remainder in West Germany. Wreckage and the bodies were shipped to Wright-Patterson Air Force Base in the States. The informant added that there was more to the incident, involving coded information, that he preferred to keep confidential. Redfern said: "The disclosure, while sketchy, may spotlight only the tip of the iceberg as to the scope of military crash retrieval operations in foreign lands. It is my suspicion that US special retrieval teams have been, and still are prepared to go into action into any crash location within its sphere of military or economic influence such as was exercised with NATO in the artefact retrievals in England and West Germany." CASE HISTORY No 3: Corwen, North Wales, 1974 A WAVE of phantom helicopters black with no identifying markings - were sighted in areas of Britain where UFOs were reported in 1973-74. They were probably rapid deployment teams sent to investigate UFOs, according to Redfern. One such event happened at 8.3-pm on January 23, 1974. A UFO crashed into Cader Bronwen, a 2,000ft peak in the Berwyn Mountains near Corwn, North Wales. One witness, Anne Williams, said: "I saw a bright light in the sky. It had a long, fiery tail which went dim and then very fire which keeps coming to life. "It was like an electric bulb in shape, with rough edges. The object fell behind the hills at the back of my bungalow and the earth shook." Off-duty police officer Gwilym Owen was drinking in The Dudley Arms pub when there was a roar, a bang and glasses in the pub shook. The sky was lit up over the mountains. Police stations as far away as 60 miles received phone calls reporting the tremor. At the Institute of Geological Scientices in Edinburgh, the crash measured four on the Richter Scale. They told journalists that a meteorite had come down on Cader Bronwen. Witness Ken Haughton saw a "luminous sphere" 90 minutes after the crash in the area. He said the sphere was 400ft across and travelling at a height of about 15,000ft. Army personnel were quickly dispatched to the scene. The next day, a mountain rescue team went to investigate, while the RAF carried out a photographic survey of the area. No trace of a craft or any meteorite was found. "One can only assume," said Redfern, "that unless the UFO exited on its own volition, it was removed by the army." Yet another UFO was seen in the area at 7.15pm that day. "I believe it may have been searching for the remains of the vehicle which struck the Berwyn mountains," said Redfern. CASE HISTORY No 4: Lake District, 1977 A UFO which was sighted over the Lake District wasn't witnessed by just members of the public - 10 police officers saw this extraordinary sight too. Shortly after midnight on August 28, 1977, a large object described either as triangular or diamond-shaped was seen over the Windermere area of Cumbria. As officers reported seeing the craft, colleagues along the UFO's path also confirmed the sighting. After 20 minutes, as the ship hovered above the A592 at Bowness, PC David Wild spotted it at a height he estimated to be 1,500ft. It eventually vanished, witnessed by two other officers, at sea over Morecambe. The most detailed description was given by John Platt. He said: "I was looking up into what appeared to be a giant ocean-going catamaran with twin hulls. A large structure at the front supported what appeared to be two giant lights. Its surface was a dull, shadowy, charcoal colour." CASE HISTORY No 5: Ipstones, Staff, 1991 A Witness known only as Mr M L was visiting friends in the Churnet Valley, Staffs, on July 19, 1991, when he saw an object fall from the sky at nearby Ipstones. The time was 10pm. M L described the object as metallic - like aluminium - 10ft long, cigar-shaped and very bright. He immediately contacted police. They searched the woodland. A helicopter was used as well. No object was located but an area of newly broken branches was found which gave the impression that something had crashed through the trees from above. The search was eventually abandoned. CASE HISTORY No 6: RAF Boscombe Down, 1994 A SMALL twin-tailed aircraft crash-landed on the runway at RAF Boscombe Down, on Salisbury Plain four miles from Stonehenge, at about 11pm on September 26, 1994. Several aviation enthusiasts listening on airband radios drove to the air base next day. They were stopped by police at roadblocks. Before being ushered away, several enthusiasts saw a disabled craft at the end of the runway covered by tarpaulins. Two days later, the wreck was flown to a California military base. Although the craft was initially believed to be a then secret US military plane known as TR-3A, one witness said the crashed craft was completely silent and was able to hover vertically abilities the TR-3A didn't possess. A month before the crash, a lorry driver reported seeing a UFO over Salisbury. Its description matched that of the crashed craft. CASE HISTORY No 7: Hepton Hill, Wilts, 1994 Villagers in the Cotswolds reported seeing a barrel-shaped craft fall into an isolated field on the evening of Halloween in 1994. But they were later told it was a bale of straw. The incident happened at Hepton Hill in Wiltshire near the villages of Church Lench and Norton. The strange object was described by one witness Paul Brooke as resembling a 40-gallon drum. Police sealed of the field and people were warned to keep away. The object was loaded on to a Royal Navy lorry and taken away. Residents raised the matter with both the Fleet Air Arm and the RAF, each of whom later denied any knowledge of the incident. A police spokesman said : "Our investigations reveal it was a bale of straw that was on fire and which the fire brigade put out. Reports of something falling from the sky are either hoaxes or somebody has said something had come to the wrong conclusion." Brooke replied: "What do the police think that we are all mad around here?" CASE HISTORY No 8: East London, 1964 Bus driver Bob Fall was driving the 123 bus from Walthamstow to Tottenham when he had a narrow escape with a UFO. He told a reporter: "I just glanced into the sky and saw something coming towards me very, very fast. It flew straight across the road and, had I been a few yards further, it would have hit the top deck of the bus. There was a loud crash as it struck the bank of the River Lea and a big splash in the water. The craft was at least 9ft long, cigar-shaped and silver." As soon as Fall reported the incident, police arrived and dredged the river, but the object had vanished. An MoD wing-commander was appraised of the details of Fall's encounter - implying that the MoD took his initial report seriously, The MoD files available now are sent and Redfern believes the full story is buried somewhere in Whitehall. SECRET BASE'S COVER IS BLOWN UFO enthusiasts have long believed that highly classified investigations into UFO activity take place at Rudloe Manor in Wiltshire. Redfern offers proof. It is officially acknowledged that Rudloe Manor is the headquarters of the RAF Provost and Security Services (P&SS), where investigators are trained in counter-intelligence. But Rudloe Manor is also the base of the Flying Complaints Flight, which investigates cases of low flying military aircraft. A former special RAF investigator said: "I'm sure that all investigations into UFOs are carried out by P&SS investigators serving in a small secret unit with Flying Complaints Flight." A report of one sighting in 1962, in Taunton, Somerset, was forwarded by the RAF straight to P&SS. The report was not forwarded to the Air Ministry for nearly two months, Redfern said: "Given that department S6 at the Air Ministry was supposedly the focal point for receiving UFO reports, it seems odd that P&SS would neglect to inform S6 of the details for almost two months. "Unless, as seems to be the case, P&SS have a mandate to conduct their own independent inquiries." A letter received by Redfern written by Air Commodore J L Uprichard, the P&SS director, confirms that they have investigated UFO sighting being treated as a low flying incident and investigated accordingly." Redfern said: "The importance of this letter cannot be over-emphasised. Although such investigations are rare, this is documented proof from the director of P&SS himself that UFO encounters have been treated as low-flying incidents." Retired RAF medic Jonathan Turner told Redfern: "UFO sightings by military pilots were never recorded in their flight logs. The station commander would be advertised of the situation and, form there, all information would be forwarded to P&SS. "If national security was considered an issue, the pilots and crews would be advised to keep quiet and reminded they were bound by the Official Secrets Act." The Ministry of Defence has admitted P&SS involvement in UFO sightings. A spokesman said: "Rudloe Manor is the headquarters of RAF Police. In the past it was indeed the RAF co-ordination point for reports of unexplained aerial sightings. The role came to an end in 1992." HOW THEY TRIED TO HUSH IT UP An alarming number of UFOs were sighted around military bases in 1957. One sighting at RAF West Freugh, Wigtownshire, was published by several newspapers. A secret Air Ministry report declassified after 30 years, reads: "It is unfortunate that the Wigtownshire radar incident fell into the hands of the Press. "We suggest that the Secretary of State does not specifically refer to these incidents as sightings on radar." Six years later, after another batch of sightings, the Air Ministry tried to dampen speculation but they failed to point out that many reports were by RAF pilots and radar operators. One of the most controversial sightings took place in Belfast eight years ago. The following is an extract from a report in official Civil Aviation Authority files about an incident on November 11, 1989. "UFO passed above aircraft at 11,200ft and burst into a cascade of lights. Heading due west. Proximity of cloud intensified brightness of light. Sighting confirmed by another aircraft and tower." [UK 5]****** Source: UFO Roundup Editor: Joseph Trainor UFO approaches British warship off Lancashire shore On Friday, October 10, 1997, talk show host Tony Newman of Red Rose Radio at 999MW received over 30 calls from listeners, who claimed to have seen UFOs flying over Lancashire the previous night. Two calls came from men identifying themselves as sailors aboard the HMS Shetland (P298), which was on a cruise in the Irish Sea west of Lancashire. The men reported that "a bright light was approaching the ship." The UFO paced the 60-meter (198-foot) vessel for a few minutes before flying away. Tim Matthews of the Lancashire UFO Society (LUFOS) stated that his group had contacted the UK Ministry of Defence, and a spokeswoman confirmed that HMS Shetland had been offshore at that time. Other callers to the Newman show reported "anomalous lights and spinning discs" over Burnley, Blackpool, Crosby, Southport and Bamber Bridge. Currently investigating the incident are Tim Matthews, Gloria Dixon of BUFORA, Eric Morris and Rory Lushman. (Many thanks to John Hayes for forwarding this report.) |
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[W 1]****** | Source: Daily Mail newspaper Date: Thursday 9th October 1997 It is 280 millon miles across and 100 million times brighter than the sun. So why can't we see the biggest baby in space? by Julian Champkin This is big - monstrously big. It is bursting with energy. And, above all, it is bright. Scientists have found what they say is the biggest and brightest star in the universe. They have called it the pistol star - after the dust-cloud of that shape which surrounds it. One hundred million times as bright as our sun, it is of a sort technically known, reasonably enough, as a super giant. It is about as big as a star can be - and, possibly, bigger. Which makes it a bit of a mystery. And, relatively speaking, as such things go in space, it is not very far away. The universe is made up of millions of galaxies, each one a disc or spiral shape, each composed in its turn of millions of stars. Our own sun is a fairly insignificant star two-thirds of the way out towards the rim of our galaxy - at its unfashionable end, as it says in The Hitch-Hiker's Guide To The Galaxy. The Pistol star, by contrast, is not insignificant at all - and it has what you can only call a fashionable address. It lies almost at the centre of our galaxy, by the spot where all the radiating spirals of stars begin. Its size and its strange position may be connected. Take its size first. Pistol is 200 times the mass of our sun. That used to be thought impossible. Our sun is a mere 864,000 miles across; Pistol is rather bigger. Its diameter is somewhere between 186 and 280 million. If it were placed at the centre of our solar system, it would stretch out passed the orbits of Mercury and Venus; it would engulf the Earth; it would reach the orbit of Mars. An object that big, filled with incandescent helium, sends out a lot of light. It is 4,000 million miles from us, so its light takes 25,000 years to reach us - but in intergalactic terms that is not really so far away. Our galaxy is 60 light years across, and we can see many, possibly most, of its stars. The Milky Way - the white band of stars that arches across the night sky - is made up of hundreds of them. They are the stars of our saucer shaped galaxy, seen edge-on from our position somewhere within its rim. So if Pistol is that bright, and that close, you might think that you would be able to see it somewhere in the Milky Way in the constellation of Sagittarius. Unfortunately, there is something in the way. The dust and gas of the Pistol nebula blocks off almost all the light that comes from the very centre of the galaxy. "Only one photon of light in every million million that it sends out reaches us," says Dr Robin Catchpole, of the Royal Greenwich Observatory. Dr Catchpole did see light from the star, back in 1986, using a telescope in South Africa. "But we could not tell if it came from one big star, or from a cluster of smaller stars close together," he says. It took the giant Hubble space telescope, orbiting 400 miles above the Earth, to show that Pistol was, actually, a single giant. Even then, Hubble had to study light from the infra-red part of the spectrum, invisible to our eyes - and the apparatus to do that was only installed on it recently, in a space-walk by NASA scientists who gave the telescope its three yearly service in orbit. But even the Hubble telescope cannot penetrate the murk that blocks out the visible light from our our new giant star. We still do not know what colour this star would be beneath the curtain of dust that is hiding it. Despite its size, it is young. It was born perhaps a million years ago, three million at the outside. That compares with an age of 4,5000 million years for our own solar system. Even the Earth was in being 4,000 million years ago, before this giant baby began. So it has grown quickly, monstrously fast, in fact. It is a big but sickly baby, outgrowing its own strength. "This big star is burning its candle at both ends," says Mark Morris of the University of California in Los Angeles, one of the co-investigators of the star. "It is so luminous that it is consuming its fuel at an outrageous rate." In six seconds, this star gives out as much energy as our sun does in a year. Despite its size, it simply cannot stand the pace. "It will have a short life and an abrupt end," say its discoverers. "Big stars go through their cycle from birth to death much faster. This one is burning energy at such a rate, that it will explode quite soon," says Dr Catchpole. By 'quite soon' he means in three million years or less, so do not hold your breath. But our sun, in contrast, has five billion years of life left in it. When Pistol goes, it will be in a very big bang. There will be a huge explosion - visible across the galaxy. The last massive suppernova took place in AD 1054, a few years before the Battle of Hastings; and was recorded, among others, by the scribes in ancient China, as well as by Indian astronomers. Pistol is so big that it is near, or possibly beyond, the limit of what astronomers thought possible. "If a star is too bright, it blows itself apart," says Dr Catchpole. "The pressure of all the radiation inside it overcomes the gravity that is the only thing holding the star together." That limit of size and brightness is called the Eddington Limit, after a British astronomer of the Thirties. A star around 100 times the mass of our Sun is approaching the Eddington Limit; and, as we have seen, the Pistol star is either very close to the limit, or actually beyond it. If that turns out to be the case, the astronomers will have to re-think the mathematics of what keeps stars together. "The centre of the galaxy is a strange place," says Dr Catchpole. "There is a great bulge of stars a little distance out, which are all quite old. Astronomers have been debating whether young stars can get born in the very centre, or whether it is a dead, cold region." The Pistol star seems to settle that question: it is young, thrusting, positively bursting with youthful energy. It shows that the centre of the galaxy is a place where stars get born. Still, it is quite a monstrous birth. "It is perhaps no accident that this extreme-mass star is found near the centre of the galaxy," says Mark Morris. "Star formation processes there may favour stars much more massive than our our modest sun." But modesty is often a virtue. Pistol's speed of growth has limited it. Can it have planets around it, and life? "No chance," says Dr Catchpole. "A planet trying to form around this star would have been swamped. This one is just too violent. The dust that comes together to form planets would have been swallowed up." Similarly, its pace of existence would have given no time for life to evolve on any circling planet that did survive. "On Earth, our gentle sun has given us 4,000 million years for us to evolve from amoeba. The Pistol star is just doing everything too fast," says Dr Catchpole. Other galaxies also have centres; and in them, too, similar frenetic giants may be forming and dying. But ET, if he exists anywhere, will be avoiding these overblown speed-merchants. Life elsewhere will have formed around a much more considerate star - something much more like our own. Our sun may not be the biggest, but lets not knock it. After all, it suits us rather well. Big may be more interesting for the astronomers, but for our life forms, at least, middle-sized and longer-lived is best. [W 2]****** Source: Teletext Strange But True Date: Saturday 11th October 1997 Zombies Zombies, corpses brought back to life in Haiti by black magic, are probably (uk.ufo.nw says: "probably!!!") individuals with psychiatric disorders. Up to 1,000 new zombies are said to be created each year, and are frequently recognised by the local population. The study was carried out by Professor Roland Littlewood, from University College, London. [W 3]****** Source: Teletext World News Date: Saturday 11th October 1997 Ozone Antarctic: The ozone hole over the South Pole now covers nearly 8.5 square miles. [W 4]****** Source: Daily Mail newspaper Date: 11th October 1997 Galileo finds life, by Jupitor Life could exist on one of the moons of Jupitor, say scientists. They have discovered evidence that Europa may have all the three ingredients essential to life. Europa, about a quarter the size of Earth and the fourth-largest of Jupitors 12 moons, is known to have two - water and an energy source. Scientists say they have discovered the third - organic compounds - on two of Jupitors other moons. That means the molecules are also likely to exist on Europa. There is speculation that there could be a warm organic 'soup' below Europa's ice-cap, ideal for the evolution of life. The findings, reported in the journal Science yesterday, are based on data from Nasa's Galileo space probe. Nasa scientist Dale Cruikshank said the discovery would intensify work on Europa, which was already 'of very special interest'. [W 5]****** Source: Sunday Telegraph newspaper Date: Sunday 19th October 1997 Hollywood admits to Bigfoot hoax By Mike Lewis and Tim Reid A PIECE of film, which for 30 years has been regarded as the most compelling evidence for the existence of Bigfoot, the North American "abominable snowman", is a hoax, according to new claims. John Chambers, the man behind the Planet of the Apes films and the elder statesman of Hollywood's "monster-makers", has been named by a group of Hollywood make-up artists as the person who faked Bigfoot. In an interview with Scott Essman, an American journalist, the veteran Hollywood director John Landis revealed "a make-up secret only six people know". Mr Landis said: "That famous piece of film of Bigfoot walking in the woods that was touted as the real thing was just a suit made by John Chambers." He said he learned the information while working alongside Mr Chambers on Beneath the Planet of the Apes in 1970. The claims contradict the findings of a forthcoming study by the North American Science Institute that the creature is real. It has analysed the footage and detected the movement of skin over muscles which could not be duplicated by the wearing of an artificial costume. But Howard Berger, of Hollywood's KNB Effects Group, said it was common knowledge within the film industry that Mr Chambers was responsible for a hoax that turned Bigfoot into a worldwide cult. Mike McCracken Jr, a make-up artist and associate of Mr Chambers, said: "I'd say with absolute certainty that John was responsible. A gorilla-suit expert, Bob Burns, said that the alleged Bigfoot shows evidence of a water bag in the stomach area - a trick used to make a gorilla suit move like real flesh. This liquid-stomach technique was developed by Charlie Germora, with whom Chambers worked at Paramount." Mr Chambers, 75, who won an Academy award for his ground-breaking ape masks in the Planet of the Apes feature film in 1968, is now in frail health and lives in seclusion in a Los Angeles nursing home. He has refused to confirm or deny the reports, yet experts say that only he possessed the know-how to create a suit which several examining experts have termed a masterpiece. Tomorrow is the 30th anniversary of the day the Bigfoot hunters Roger Patterson and Bob Gimlin emerged from the wilds of northern California with the celebrated film, perhaps the only footage of unexplained phenomena which has stood up to rigorous scientific examination. Mr Patterson died in 1972 convinced that he had filmed a real Bigfoot. But Howard Berger told a Bigfoot investigator, Mark Chorvinsky: "It was like a gag to be played on the guy who shot it. The guy never knew it was a hoax his friends played on him." Mr Chorvinsky, editor of Strange magazine, who studied the background of the Patterson film for a year, said Mr Chambers created monster suits for the Lost in Space television series of the mid-1960s which look very similar to the creature in Patterson's film. Mr Chambers was also known to have participated in another Bigfoot hoax: the Burbank Bigfoot - a 7ft 4in carcass painstakingly built over a plaster cast of the actor Richard Kiel, best known as Jaws in the James Bond films. The subject of the Patterson film - a large, hairy, upright walking creature with wobbling breasts - is seen walking left to right, turning briefly to glare in the direction of the cameraman before disappearing into the trees, "for all the world like a classic Charlie Chaplin fadeout", according to one critic. Another observer described the creature in the film as a "cross between a gorilla and Mae West". The film was hailed as proof of Bigfoot's existence by British and Russian scientists and expeditions were organised to try to capture the creature. The episode turned Bigfoot into the world's favourite monster and even spawned the popular Harry and the Henderson's television comedy series. But Mr Chorvinsky believes that the scientists have followed a false trail. "Every make-up artist I have spoken to believes it is a guy in a fur suit," he said. Bigfoot enthusiasts disagree. Chris Murphy, a Bigfoot researcher, said: "Very high computer enhancements of the film show conclusively that, whatever it was, it was not wearing a suit. The skin on the creature ripples as it walks." [W 6]****** Source: Sightings On The Radio http://www.sightings.com/ Video screen captures can be seen at: http://www.sightings.com/ufo/mexufo1.htm Mexico City UFO Video Here are four video screen 'captures' from the sensational Mexico City UFO video which is currently under extensive computer analysis by Brit and Lee Elders, Jim Dilletoso at Village Labs, and a major University in Mexico. The video was taken on August 6,1997 and was delivered anonymously to legendary Mexican UFO journalist/researcher Jaime Maussan who then sent it to Brit and Lee Elders in the U.S. The Elders and Jim Dilettoso were Jeff's guests on Sightings On the Radio on October 5. The Elders termed the footage the most spectacular and important they have ever seen and that, if real, it could constitute a veritable "Rosetta Stone" in the history of UFO research, unlocking the reality of the phenomenon to the general public. Jim Dilettoso went into considerable detail explaining the highly sophisticated computer technology being used to evaluate the tape. The October 5 program can be heard on RealAudio Archives through the Sightings website. The video itself lasts just less than 30 seconds and shows the object, about 50 feet in diameter, moving in and around some Mexico City highrise apartment buildings at a height of about 200 feet under overcast conditions. At the point in the video where these two scenes were taken, the craft has just been noted to 'wobble' slightly and then darts behind one of the buildings never to appear again. Cloaking exposed? When the tape was first put up on Jim Dilettoso's three computer monitors, the craft did NOT appear on one of them...it just wasn't visible. Everything else was. As Brit and Lee Elders explained to Jeff, when Jim tweaked the gamma setting on the monitor, the craft suddenly appeared. This, according to the Elders, opens up a whole new realm of possibilities. It could well be that these craft commonly use a relatively simple radiation technique to cloak themselves and appear invisible in broad daylight - especially in overcast conditions. While this remains thoroughly speculative, it is nevertheless therefore possible that the people in this craft thought their cloaking shield was up and operating on that day. Perhaps when someone began videotaping them they realized through some sensing ability that they were being taped and were visible! That might explain why the craft suddenly darted behind the highrise building and never reappeared. If what we see in these pictures is indeed real, it would seem foolish not to assume that such cloaking is an easy technology for these people who have mastered so much else. It would furthermore seem a logical assumption that there just might be craft, hundreds...or even thousands of them, flying around major cities in broad daylight, touring right down major boulevards, looking into the private lives of countless highrise residents, and generally making like Claude Rains in the "Invisible Man"! Just a thought... Brit and Lee Elders also told Jeff that at least 10 witnesses to the event have now been identified by Jaime and that extensive investigations into the sightings are underway. Furthermore, the building from which the video was taken has apparently been identified and the employees will be asked to participate in the investigation. It is now known that these pictures came from Mexican UFO Researcher Fernando Camacho who actually videotaped them from a television program hosted by Jaime Maussan. Fernando's report: This report was submitted to UFOINFO by Fernando Camacho: The images I am attaching were extracted from a video broadcasted the 28th of September 1997 in "Tercer Milenio" hosted by Jaime Maussan. This program is on every weekend here in Mexico. Maussan is a well-respected Mexican Ufologist. On this broadcast he was noticeably excited about the video. He said that he received it on Friday the 26th. Then he proceeded to read a letter that came accompanying the video. After that he showed an amazing piece of footage. On it you see a huge UFO hovering over a building. He estimated its size at 20 meters. You can clearly see the UFO is rotating over its axis. It has a very peculiar motion, as if earth's gravity is affecting it as it flies. For a few seconds the UFO stays fairly static, then it begins to move. It travels from left to right and goes behind a building, reappearing again on top of the same building. It keeps traveling at a slow pase until it goes behind a second building and we never see it again. On the audio you can hear the voices of two guys very excited, shouting and screaming as they tape the UFO. Maussan analyzed the video by testing various "display modes" with a computer and by zooming digitally on the image. He concluded it was highly likely that is was genuine. The following week on the broadcast of October 5th he continued the investigation. He went to the site where the video was shot and found several witnesses that corroborated the event. He was calling it "the Supreme evidence" of the UFO Phenomena. He said that it was the best video in existence of a UFO, and that he would continue with the investigation. I made 4 image grabs of the video. I recorded it on VHS over-the-air so the grabs are not of the highest quality. [W 7]****** Source: CNN From: baylissl@gwent-tertiary.ac.uk Date: Friday 17th October 1997 Sparkling Celestial Affair Stirs Southern Australia. SYDNEY, October 14th 1997 (Itar-Tass) - The telephone of the Australian national bureau for monitoring unidentified flying objects was attacked throughout last Saturday, with avalanching reports of an UFO from hundreds of witnesses. The story of residents of the eastern coast of Australia was that a bright greenish-silvery object was seen floating in the sky for a few minutes before to fall apart in sparkles that rained on the earth. Australian military experts and scientists of the New South Wales observatory are in hypothesis-making, while news media have come up with an explanation that the enigmatic sparkling affair was space junk from the Russian orbiting space station Mir. [W 8]****** Source: Teletext: World News In Brief Date: Friday 24th October 1997 New Russian Stealth Fighter Russia: A new Stealth fighter, described as superior to the US radar-evading plane, has carried out a series of successful test flights, reports said. [W 9]****** Global Surveyor will photograph 'Face On Mars' say NASA On the 12th September 1997 NASA announced that the Global Surveyor spacecraft will infact be taking higher resolution photographs of the Cydonia area (Face On Mars). The spokesman for Planetary SETI Research, an organisation that has published many papers on this fascinating subject, Professor Stanley McDaniel said that there is a "reasonably high probability" that at least some of the objects will be artificial structures designed by intelligent extraterrestrial beings. The main fear at the moment is just how much of the Cydonia region will be photographed. The hope is of course that the entire area will be covered. The resolution of the photo's will be five times higher than any previously taken. [W 10]****** Source: NASA press release Date: Tuesday 14th October 1997 Global Surveyor's Orbit Raised While Solar Panel is Analysed [edited for length] The lowest point of Mars Global Surveyor's aerobraking orbit has been raised temporarily, and aerobraking has been suspended while the flight team analyzes data to understand why one of the spacecraft's two solar panels, which had not fully deployed, exhibited unexpected motion during a recent dip through the upper Martian atmosphere. The spacecraft's current 35-hour orbit around Mars, which was taking it down to 75 miles (121 kilometers) above the Martian surface during each of its closest passes over the planet, has been raised to 105 miles (170 kilometers). The orbit was raised Oct. 12 by the operations team at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), Pasadena, CA, and Lockheed Martin Astronautics, Denver, CO, by performing a brief, 5.15-mile-per-hour (2.3-meter-per-second) propulsive burn at the farthest point of the spacecraft's orbit around Mars. The panel's performance has had no effect on spacecraft power. "We're taking a hiatus from aerobraking for the next few weeks while we study data to try to model and understand the apparent deflection of the solar panel that never fully deployed and latched in place after launch," said Glenn E. Cunningham, Mars Global Surveyor project manager at JPL. "This delay in the aerobraking process will probably change the spacecraft's final mapping orbit from the originally planned 2 p.m. local Mars time passage over the planet's equator to another time, and we are studying several other orbits that will give us nearly the same quality of science results." Several other mapping orbits are available to Mars Global Surveyor to carry out its science objectives. The flight team will explore alternatives in the next few weeks to accomplish the lowest orbit possible and achieve a "sun-synchronous" orbit that will allow Global Surveyor to fly over the Martian equator at the same local solar time each orbit. These sun-synchronous orbits are designed so that the spacecraft's instruments always see Mars at the same lighting angle on every pass over the surface. Additional information about the Mars Global Surveyor mission is available on the World Wide Web by accessing JPL's Mars news site at URL: http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/marsnews or the Global Surveyor project home page at URL: http://mars.jpl.nasa.gov [W 11]****** Still no radio contact with Pathfinder On Wednesday, October 15, 1997, the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena attempted to send a series of commands to the Pathfinder spacecraft on Mars. The commands were uploaded via the Deep Space Network's 100-kilowatt transmitter in Madrid, Spain. The site has two 26-meter steerable antennae and a steerable dish antenna 64 meters in diameter. "In both cases, they had not received a 'transmitter on' signal on the ground, indicating that the commands had been received by the spacecraft." The last successful contact with Pathfinder took place on October 7. A JPL spokesman said, "We fear the signal is falling on deaf ears." [W 12]****** Source: The Times Interface Newspaper Date: 22nd October 1997 A breath of fresh airline By Anjana Ahuja How appropriate that a car should go supersonic on the 50th anniversary of the sound barrier being broken in the air. On October 14, 1947, Charles (Chuck) E. Yeager, a test pilot with the United States Air Force, exceeded Mach 1 in a Bell XS-1 rocketplane. Now Brigadier General, Yeager is still in the business, and acts as flying adviser at Edwards Air Force Base in California. As Aviation Week and Space Technology notes this week, people are already looking towards hypersonic flight, which entails speeds more than Mach 5. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the Hyper-X programme, a Nasa experiment in propulsion. Initial tests on the air-breathing plane will be conducted in a temperature tunnel. The advantage of air-breathing technology is that it takes oxygen from the air for its combustion and propulsion system; this means oxygen does not have to be carried on board. This allows for a bigger payload, or for the vehicle to extend its range. After those initial checks, a B-52 will loft the slender, 12ft plane into the air and release it at about 20,000ft. A booster rocket will kick in, sending the plane to about 95,000ft, when the engine will fire for just seven seconds. In the first test flight, scheduled for mid-1999, the plane is supposed to reach Mach 7. Subsequent test flights will see the plane reach Mach 5 and Mach 10. On each occasion, the plane will arc upwards and then splash down off the coast of California. And the first test plane will be on a kamikaze mission there are no plans to retrieve it from the ocean. Over the next five years the programme will cost $160 million. At the same time, Nasa has also been working on high-speed civil planes. The designs, which look like Concorde, are supposed to be environmentally friendly and economically viable (which cannot be said of Concorde) to encourage more widespread use. Boeing has joined the effort and cancelled its own plans to bring out a supersonic jumbo jet. But it will be different from Concorde in several ways. It will not have a drooping nose, nor a retracting windshield visor. In fact, the plan for the super sonic transport (SST) incorporates no plans for front windows, just side ones. The pilot will have to rely on cameras to see what's ahead. It doesn't worry Nasa it says that using conventional vision, pilots can spot onlyone in three potential hazards. The plane, designed to reach Mach 2.4 and carry 300 passengers, is costing billions to design and build. It will cruise at 60,000ft. To protect against the heat generated by supersonic speeds, the nose and edges will be made of titanium. [W 12]****** Source: The Times Interface Newspaper Date: 22nd Octoner 1997 American navy set to deploy robot planes By Chris Partridge PILOTLESS aircraft may be deployed by the US Navy to destroy enemy fleets and shore installations in future conflicts. The Naval Air Systems Command has awarded a six-month contract to Lockheed Martin to define a family of pilotless naval strike aircraft. Ideas include an aircraft that takes off horizontally but lands vertically, enabling it to take off through a forward port on the ship and come straight down on the upper deck after the mission. Another is a plane which would be fired vertically from the ship and come down in the same manner. The most revolutionary concept is a plane launched from the ballistic missile tubes of a submarine, subsequently landing at a friendly air base or ship. The robot planes would be used to attack targets such as airfields and radar installations and would be guided by a pilot either on board the carrier or even back in a naval base in the US. Pilotless planes are increasingly seen as the way of the future because they remove the most delicate and precious element (the human being) from the fighting machine. They will be able to turn at speeds which would kill a human pilot, and will have no windows the weakest point of any fighter. Once the pilot is removed from the aircraft it can be launched in ways that would be impossible with a man aboard, such as firing it vertically with a disposable rocket. Landing can also be much harder, which means flight decks can be shorter. Although unoccupied strike aircraft are expected to be used extensively in the wars of the future, pilots will still be needed in many roles. The US Navy is currently planning a fleet of large carriers known as CVX, and stealth designs are among the front runners. The stealth CVX would have a long tapering bow, sloping down to the surface like the ram on an ancient Greek trireme, and a flat, unobstructed flight deck. Ironically, the US Navy is seeking ideas for a stealth aircraft carrier just as it is trying to persuade Congress to fund a tenth nuclear aircraft carrier of the Nimitz class ships so big they could easily be picked up by radars on Mars. |
| Amusing UFO Stories |
Updated: 27/10/97
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In issue {80} of the e-zine I related an amusing story of what
recently happened to me, in which I thought I had seen my first UFO.
Infact it turned out to be a 'fairy' - a plant know as a dandelion.
We asked for you to write in with your amusing UFO relates stories.
Here are two of them. Thank you to all who sent your stories in. | From: Dave Melton Date: Monday 8th Sep 1997 An Amusing Story One weekend night in 1974 a friend and I camped on Brodwell Dry lake bed in the Mojave Desert, near Ludlow, California. It's a very desolate spot good for star gazing, as you can see the horizon in all directions. We had a late cook out and were looking at the stars, wondering if we might see a UFO. Later on into the night about 2:30 or so I was looking north when I saw a rather bright yellowish light suddenly blink on. Very soon after another blinked on, and still more until there were about eight to ten lights. We were stunned. My first thought was maybe they were floodlights on a huge radio tower, as they were relatively low on the horizon. But then I could see that they were all moving. My heart was pounding as I trained my telescope on one of the lights for a closer look. It was a bright yellowish light moving slowly down, and I could see smoke just above it, being illuminated by the light itself. Then it hit me. They were paratroopers carrying flairs on a night drop. They had to be. All the lights were the same color, slowly drifting down until they disappeared. While they were all still visible we began hearing the sound of a far away aircraft which sounded like a turboprop, probably a Hercules. The total duration of the sighting was around five minutes. Before we figured out what they were it was pretty exciting. Dave Melton ** From: Lisa SutherlandFraser Date: Monday 8th Sept 1997 Amusing Sightings I can totally relate to Dave's story about the "fairy" from the dandelion being mistaken for a UFO. Well mine is just as funny. In all my years searching the skies for UFOs I have never consciously remembered seeing one. About six months ago I'm walking home when it was just dark and over the top of houses in the distance I saw what looked like the moon, though it was very yellow and moving! I briskly walked further up the street so I could see what this was, my heart rate increased as I started thinking "Oh my god oh my god, they're here!". From what I could see it looked like a plasma craft as mentioned by Jaime Maussan in Mexico, it had a similar shape and was moving, well hovering slowly in the distance. I belted home, got in the car and feverishly decided to chase it, took the camera along for proof. Lost sight of it and then drove some 15kms in the direction it was headed. I was thinking at the time, "aren't people stopping, looking at it in awe". Can you imagine my absolute disappointment when finally stopping close enough to see the UFO at closer range, the words "Whitmans Chocolates" in full view plus cameras flashes going off, this was no UFO, it was the Whitman's Blimp which had just started to fly in the skies of Melbourne. Ross Howe of the UFO Reporting Centre had thousands of reports of this darned thing because from afar it is eerily very UFO like! God did I laugh at myself and the fever that overtook me to see my first UFO! Cheers Lisa SF Landing a robotic vehicle on a comet ------------------------------------ In issue {79} of the e-zine we posed the following question: Question: Would it be possible using todays technology to land a robotic vehicle on a passing comet? To record information as the comet travels it's orbit into deep space. To be collected the next time it passes Earth, whenever that might be. In issue {80} we printed some of the really interesting replies that we received. Here is just one more. From: sacpbl@cardiff.ac.uk Date: Wednesday 10th Sept 1997 Landing on comets After having written to you about the possibilities of landing on a comet I was interested to see that NASA are proposing such a mission for the next century. I cannot remember exactly what programme it was in, although it was on Discovery and the main basis of the programme was comets, could they kill us all, how much do we actually know about them. So I guess that NASA believes it is possible to land on a comet, send a probe into the core and hitch a lift until it comes back into the solar system and then eject the probe; then send back the information. Neat stuff! Paul Little |
| A Fearful Symmetry - Part 5 |
Updated: 27/10/97
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A FEARFUL SYMMETRY | A TRUE STORY OF ALIEN INTRUSION INTO HUMAN LIVES By D. Lynne Bishop A FEARFUL SYMMETRY Copyright 1995 by D. Lynne Bishop All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical including photocopying, recording or otherwise without prior permission of the publisher, except by a reviewer who may quote brief passages. First Printing September 1995 Printed in the United States of America BOOKFINDER PUBLISHING --- CHAPTER SIX At the end of my sister's session on July 12, we all met for an informal discussion with John and his assistant. When I entered the room, he gazed at me and asked, "I have just one question. What were you burying at your horse tree?" A cold chill went through me, and a feeling of guilt swept through on its heels. I had an immediate flash of memory of a piece of metal, lightweight, smooth and shiny, triangular-shaped. I knew it had come from the craft. But the memory scared me, and I told him, "Just my broken horses." I even joked about having buried one of the aliens. I simply couldn't admit to him that I'd had that flash of memory insight, and yet, upon leaving the office, I told my family members that I knew what he had referred to was a piece of metal. My sister smiled, but refused to divulge any further information, since the hypnotherapist had indicated he would like to have a session with me on that particular episode at a later date. The trip home was long. I sat deep in thought for a large portion of the drive, as unbidden memories began surfacing in my consciousness. Late that evening, as my husband and I prepared for bed, I told him what I had remembered about the object, and drew a picture of it. After describing it to him, he suggested that I should send the drawing and my description to the hypnotherapist. The following morning, I mailed the drawing and information to John. After communicating with me about the items I'd sent, the hypnotherapist set an appointment with me for another session, to be held on August 2. In the meantime, I was encouraged by a response to the letter I had mailed Budd Hopkins in February. Enclosed with a brief note was some information about the Intruders Foundation, located in New York. This was my first true glimpse into the magnitude of the alien abduction phenomenon. By the time August 2 arrived, I was anxious to explore more of my memories. I felt less isolated and more secure, and the extreme horror I'd felt at the outset was beginning to dwindle. My mother and I had begun to work through some of our differing opinions, and had become more at ease with each other. My sister's levity in the midst of all the "tragedy and suffering" I'd been feeling was an excellent counterbalance to my doldrums, and eventually won through even my resistance. In spite of myself, my sense of humor was returning. It was in that frame of mind that I attended my next session on August 2, 1992. There was a lengthy pre-hypnosis conversation, during which several potential encounters were brought up. The following excerpts were taken from this pre-hypnosis discussion. John: Okay, let's talk about some of your earlier memories. There was a time, around four or five . . . let's just refresh our minds on what you remember happening back then. Lynne: Okay. I was around four or five . . . and it's nighttime; real dark. I was looking out a window that had several smaller panes, and I see this face. It just burns into my consciousness. I think I had been sleeping, and got up. There's a light on in the house, and I remember that the face just really seemed to shine. I thought it was the bogeyman. I never told anyone about it . . . that seems kind of odd, now. I don't know why I didn't tell her, like, "Mom, I think somebody was out there the other night." John: All right. And what would be your guess as to how old you were? Lynne: I would have probably been about four years old. I asked Mom where we would have lived in a house like that, and she said there were only two homes she could think of. One was in Ft. Bragg, North Carolina. That was just before we went over to Europe, to Germany. The other was a house at Ft. Rucker, Alabama, and I would have been between seven and nine there. Mom said we only lived there shortly before moving onto the Base. I'm sure I was four, because the other age feels too old. John: Is there any other time, early in your childhood, that comes to you . . . any other puzzling memory? Lynne: Well, I've been trying to work on a chronology--there are a lot of weird experiences. I can think of possibly two or three over in Europe. One was when my brother, sister and I were out on a little lake area in Garmisch, Germany. We were playing by ourselves, and all of a sudden kind of looked at each other and said, "Oh, Mom's calling. We've got to go home." The thing was, we couldn't have heard her; she was too far away around the lake. When we got home we told her we heard her calling, and she just smiled. She said we had heard her calling "inside her mind," because she had wanted us to come home. But, we always . . . kind of lived that way, anyway. You know, there were always strange experiences. Another time, when I was around three or four, I was rocking in a little rocking chair on the front porch of our house. There were steps down, and I remember thinking maybe I could rock down them, so I tried, and fell down them, chair and all. I remember running into the house, screaming because I had a really bad cut on my knee that was bleeding a lot. Mom asked me about it, and I told her, "It was mital (metal), Mommy!" She took me to the doctor and he wanted to stitch it up, but I was so traumatized and upset that I wouldn't let him, so they just cleaned it and put some stinging medicine on it. I have a large scar on my knee where the cut was. John: Okay. Tell us about that memory of yours about burying something. (Referring to my sister's earlier session.) Lynne: Okay. Um, let's see . . . after my sister's session, you asked me, "What did you bury by the tree?" And the immediate thought I had was that it was a piece of metal. I remembered that I was ten. I had been at the tree, and my sister had come there and asked what I was doing. I handed her the piece of metal, and told her I thought I should bury it under the tree, that it felt like I should. This tree was my safe haven. It's where . . . I used to collect horse figurines, and whenever they would get broken . . . I hated the thought that Mom would pitch them out. So, I would take them before she did, and go down to the tree. I didn't actually bury them; I just sat them at the base of the tree, and periodically I would go down there and play with them. In fact, the only thing I recall ever burying there is that piece of metal. I didn't get it buried very deep, because that ground was pretty hard! (Laugh). Very rocky down there. Um, but my sister never came to the tree, because that was . . it was mine . . . and . . . she was not into that at all. Uh, she always thought it was kinda ridiculous. But this one time, she came there. The metal piece was rounded, not jagged . . . rounded on one end, with a definite point on the other. To me, it seemed triangular or trapezoidal, but rounded--not angular. And when she came to the tree that time, I buried it. It seems like my sister just wandered off after that, and I stayed a few minutes longer. And it's funny, because after I buried that . . . there was a point where I quit using the tree. After that, I would go sit on the bank of the pond and watch the water, but I never did the tree-thing much after that. HYPNOSIS SESSION August 2, 1992 From this point, hypnotic regression has been induced. Much of the description of the metal piece and the prologue that followed were the same or similar to the pre- hypnotic memories, so that part is omitted. Where there is a broader scope of description, it is included here. John: . . . Look very closely at this object, and see how it contrasts with the sandy area under the tree . . . Lynne: A bright flash . . . It's about two or three inches in size. There's a bend to it, an S- curve. Fairly thin, maybe half-an-inch thick, not like paper or foil . . . more substantial. It's light, almost reminiscent of aluminum . . . John: . . . drift to the first moment when you saw it .. . Lynne: I see a long . . . like a long neck . . . forming . . . like a pole or something. The top is fanned out. It's in a room . . . and I can see . . . like a flying buttress. Oh, man . . . this room . . . it's so full of equipment, like machinery. Almost like a water . . . reminds me of pipes, fairly good sized . . . maybe three or four inches in diameter. And it comes down to . . . something almost like a fountain affair. Because of the pipes, it makes me think of a fountain. I'm not seeing water, though. The pipes are just that stupid gray color. John: Slowly pan the room and look around. What do you notice in this room? What do you see? Lynne: Ooh . . . I have the feeling I took something! There was something on the side of those pipes . . . it almost made me think of a sink. There's a piece . . . something . . . laying on the left-hand side of it--the side that was near to me. I kiped it. For a moment, I wasn't being watched. They left me alone in here for a moment, and the thing wasn't too far up, so I grabbed it and put it in my left pocket. Then I went and stood back where I was. John: What did you feel as you grabbed the thing? Lynne: Well . . . I kinda had the feeling I wasn't supposed to do that. (Humor evident). Also a mixture of excitement and . . . fear of being found. John: Why would you take it? Why would you risk trouble? Lynne: I think . . . (Crying) . . . I just wanted something . . . so I could say it was really happening. John: Did it feel good to have something in your pocket as proof? Lynne: Uh, huh! John: Okay, so what happens next? How does the scene change? Lynne: The door opened behind me. I didn't turn around, because I was afraid I would look guilty. It's one of the little guys. He comes up to me and just . . . kinda waves his hand. John: And what happens then? Lynee: The next thing is he's holding my hand. You know, he's almost taller than me. John: What happens next? Lynne: We walk out of the room. Whew! (Small whistle) . . . Wow! It's like . . . uh, coming down, falling down. It's like . . . the floor opens up. It's just like . . . all of a sudden . . . It's almost a tube-effect. I was right in the center of this motion. It's fun. It's like a free-fall. A gentle motion down. I don't think I can move. John: Are you alone? Lynne: No. That little guy who was with me in the room is over on my left. Strange . . . Ooh . . . They have weird movement! He turned his head to look at me, and it's not a really smooth move. Almost like he turned his head in stages. Like it didn't really want to bend that way, and he had to really work to move it that way. He looked into my face . . . John: And how does it look to you? As you look very carefully at his face . . . Lynne: So inhuman. He's so inhuman. John: What do you feel as you stare at his face, and he stares at yours? Lynne: I'm trying very hard not to think of that metal piece. I'm afraid he'll read my mind and know I've got it. I'm trying really hard to just act normal. Trying so hard . . . I'm trying to clear my mind. John: You really wanted that piece. Lynne: Yeah. I really wanted it. John: What happens next? Lynne: He drops me off at the tree. Oh, wow! That's why I buried it! (Crying) . . . so stupid . . . I buried it so they wouldn't find it! John: And how did all of this begin that day? Lynne: It was pretty early in the morning, and I went out to play with my horses. I guess it was right around 10:00 A.M., or so. It's funny, I didn't see the ship this time. Must have been right overhead, or something, and I didn't see it approach. 'Cause the first thing I knew was that same little one was just there at the tree. There was no sound. I was just sitting there, doing my normal thing. He stepped from around the tree, or at least that's when I first saw him. Something made me look up. I didn't scream and run. John: Why not? He's so inhuman; why didn't you scream and run? Lynne: (Sigh) . . . I've never been able to. He just looks . . . He just looks at 'ya. And you just go with 'em. John: Does he say anything to you? Lynne: Just the word, "Come." It's inside my head. It's like . . . when you think to yourself, and this thought comes to you . . . so it's like you hear your own voice saying it. Or what you sound like to yourself, inside. And . . . I go. It's not really very far . . . I just walked a few steps, and then . . . up. John: How does that feel? Lynne: It's kind of neat. Take a step, and then I . . . it's like a force that whisks you up. I feel safe. I know I'm not going to fall. It's hazy in the force. I don't see the ground. There's a shimmer . . like a shimmery haze. I don't see the trees or the ground; everything just kind of disappears. But there's a kind of luminosity to it . . . a glow . . . almost like a hazy curtain. John: Okay. And so you buried that thing, 'cause you didn't want them to find it and get it back. Do you ever remember trying to dig it up again? Lynne: I went back once with Mother, years later . . . and I didn't even know why I went back to the tree. But I remember going back there, feeling like I had unfinished business. I forgot it was there. That's so pitiful. (Sad laugh). John: You got your evidence, and then you buried it and couldn't remember it. Well, maybe you can picture exactly where you buried it. Maybe you'll find it, yet. Now, drift back in time, and let's think about a house you were living in, back when you were four or five years old, somewhere around in there. And you can picture where you were living . . . you can picture the house where you thought you saw something in the window . . . Describe what it looks like. What do you notice? Lynne: Um . . . a green footlocker. It's a toy chest. Seems like bunkbeds. John: Where were you sleeping; on the bottom or the top? Lynne: My sister and I alternated, 'cause neither of us liked the top. John: Okay. You can remember how that room looks . . . Describe the room . . . Lynne: There's a night-light, and a light on in the bathroom. I was always having nightmares. Oh, God . . . did I ever! I can remember waking up and being so terrified! I always thought there was a monster that lived under my bed. John: What did it look like? Lynne: Hands. That's so funny! I was always afraid. For years and years, I always jumped out of my bed when I woke up, so it wouldn't grab me. John: So, could you see at all, at night? Lynne: Uh, huh. Mom always left the bathroom light on, so we could find it at night. She knew I was really bad about having nightmares. I used to run into Mom and Dad's room all the time, and wake them up in the middle of the night. I just always dreamed of monsters. John: What did they look like? Like gorillas, or the Frankenstein monster, or a mummy, or a werewolf . . . ? Lynne: Oh, just hands and eyes. John: And what do the hands look like, the ones that live under your bed? Lynne: Oh . . . long fingers. Long, thin . . . white. They weren't . . weren't like our hands. They didn't have five fingers. I was always afraid . . . that it lived under my bed. John: Where did you see it? Lynne: Outside the window. It had big black eyes. Something woke me up. John: Okay. Be very aware of how something seemed to wake you up. Lynne: I remember . . . when I went to sleep, I always had to be sure that my feet and hands were on the bed, and not hanging over the edge. (Humor evident). Because . . . something could grab me. John: So, what got your attention that night? Lynne: I don't really know what woke me up, but I took the cover off . . and I see my bunny slippers. I put them on. I think . . . I think . . . I wanted a glass of water. Went . . . hall . . . I walked down the hall. I turned on the light, and I'm standing in the front room. After I turned on the light, I looked out the window. There's a face . . . there's a face! It's outside the window. It showed up . . . so stark. It's almost sh . . . almost shining! It's white! I'm on a higher level . . . than the face first was. I think I'm on a different level. John: What happens next? Lynne: I'm scared. John: Do you scream and run? Lynne: No, I just freeze. And it's . . . coming through . . . the window. The face comes through. It's kind of . . . a little man. The little guy . . . picks . . . He's picking me up! He just floated in. I didn't see him walk. He just kinda slid. I was scared when I first saw him. I was acting like a rabbit. (Laugh) . . . I was acting like a rabbit, because a bunny freezes. I'm trying not to be noticed. I'm not very big, and he picks me up. It feels like we're going up. I can see the furniture and stuff underneath us. It's funny . . . I know I shouldn't be able to go through the ceiling, but he seems to think he can! (Laugh). I feel protected . . . a protected feeling . . . and safe. It feels like a pull, when we go through the ceiling. John: Can you describe the little man? Lynne: His mouth isn't . . . isn't right. He's just got a straight line. No lips. He's got big eyes. They're not ugly, but they don't have an eyelid. They're dark black. There's something . . . like a lens. They've got a shiny, kind of reflective . . . it doesn't look like a normal eye. John: What do you feel, when you look at those eyes? Lynne: Um . . . kind of lost. There's something above us. It's roundish . . . there are some colors . . . blue . . . going around. And some white. We move closer to it, and there's a little panel . . that slid back. It's kind of dark, at first, but as we're getting closer, it lights up, or something. It looks like a little room. It's all metal-looking, inside. A dull metal. It's a round room; there aren't any corners. No toys to play with. No playmates. There's just him, right now. It's kinda neat, though. He was holding me and brought me on in, and then he put me on the floor, so I'm standing. And, boy, is he bald! (Laugh). He's going over to the right side . . . and he opened a door. Doorway. He's come back toward me, and I know I'm supposed to go with him. I'm walking with him, and he's gliding by me. There's another guy like him walking off to the right, and another to the right. But, they're not involved in what we're doing. John: And what are you doing? Lynne: There's an area on the floor . . . and it looks liquid. I can't swim, but I was really good at floating. He's letting me know I'm supposed to get in this pool. John: So, what happens? Lynne: Oh, I took off my clothes and got in. (Laugh). It's wet, but it's dry. I don't seem to get wet. It was like a bathtub, and I sat in it. Then I lay backward in it. I got totally submerged. I had the feeling I was taking a bath. After a while, I knew I should get out, so I did. I'm standing there, but my clothes are still just laying there. He didn't give them back to me. I had the feeling that I was being prepared for something. |
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